DISCLAIMER: YES, ALL OF THESE BAND NAMES ARE REAL. SAD, BUT TRUE.
64 Spiders was a
wholly unremarkeable band on its own, existing from 1985-87, and is only even interesting because the members of it became
founding fathers of the "
grunge" scene with other bands later. The only record of theirs I could find any information on was a 7" single called
Potty Swat (ick), which contained two tracks, "Potty Swat" and "Rubber Room." They also had two tracks included on a compilation by
C/Z records, titled
Another Pyrrhic Victory. The songs on that record are called "
There Ain't" (though what there ain't, I don't know), and "
Bulemic Saturday." They sound like
punk rock took a crap and that crap learned how to sing and play
instruments. Anyway, the "musicians" (and where they went after 64 Spiders broke up) are as follows:
Dave Lee: vocals
No one seems to know what happened to this guy. Probably for the best.
James Burdyshaw: guitar
Burdyshaw left the band and joined
Cat Butt briefly before joining up with
Yummy and a group called
Rain Dogs about whom there seems to be no information aside from the fact that they apparently existed at some point. He then did a stint with
Sinister Six before becoming a full-time member of both
The Bare-Ass Minimums and
The Bug Nasties.
Joe Ross: bass
Joe Ross left 64 Spiders to join
The Green Pajamas, before rejoining Burdyshaw in
Yummy.
Eric Walker: drums (1985-86)
Got a "real life" and is now apparently married.
Norman Scott: drums (1986-87)
Interestingly, Scott ended up joining the most important group of anyone in the band; when he left in 1987, he joined
Skinyard with to-be studio mastermind
Jack Endino. Unfortunately, he was replaced by far-superior drummer
Barret Martin before Skinyard's breakthrough album
1000 Smiling Knuckles. Martin would later play with
Screaming Trees and with
Layne Staley and
Mike McCready's side project
Mad Season.
sources:
http://cycletheory.tripod.com/members.html
http://www.fuzzlogic.com/flex/a/185.php
http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/index.html?bands/bands.html